About the Global Antiquities Group
Northwestern’s Global Antiquities group represents scholars dedicated to the study of antiquity regardless of regional specialization. The organization holds workshops, hosts invited speakers, and promotes the study of antiquity among Northwestern’s undergraduates. This work is carried out with generous funding from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, as well as that of several departments across campus.
Please also visit Global Antiquities at McGill University.
Call For Papers: “Teaching
Antiquity Symposium”
April 18th 2026, Northwestern University Campus, Evanston IL.
Global Antiquities Northwestern invites abstracts for papers to be delivered at its second “Teaching
Antiquity Symposium” this spring. We hope again to bring together instructors and curators of diverse
regional and disciplinary specializations to discuss contemporary developments in the teaching of ancient
cultures, to share ideas and challenges with a broad range of college and museum based scholars. We
invite submissions that help us reflect on how we can learn from each other to enhance how we teach and
display the ancient cultures that we study.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
● teaching the past beyond the Mediterranean
● teaching the past in global perspective
● teaching antiquity across disciplines
● teaching ancient languages (any ancient language)
● teaching with objects
● digital approaches to the study of antiquity in teaching
In addition to thematically organized panels, the symposium will include a keynote address by Professor
Clara Bosak-Shroeder of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Open to all scholars with college or museum affiliation. Graduate student submissions are welcome.
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and should be emailed to
yannicklambert2028@u.northwestern.edu with the subject “TEACHING ANTIQUITY SUBMISSION”
by December 1, 2025. Please include the following:
A cover sheet with the presenter’s details
● Full name(s)
● Affiliation details: department, institution
● Email address
In a separate sheet, without identifying information:
● Abstract title – limited to 20 words in UPPER CASE
● Abstract text – limited to 300 words
For reference, the program of the first Teaching Antiquity Symposium can be found here:
https://sites.northwestern.edu/globalantiquitiesnu/news-events/teaching-antiquity-symposium/
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